Hurricane Could Leave 1 Million Homeless

the interest is to alarm and panic, each alarm and panic greater than the last, so as to hold readers

readers' attention wanders

it must be focussed again

meanwhile an actual hurricane is sort of fun

no school, you get to use candles, trees are interestingly down around the neighborhood, change of diet from the fare your mother usually puts out.

sometimes a visit to the local airport finds overturned airplanes

that was before the media profit centers came, all soap all the time

-- When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans on Monday, it could turn one of America's most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city's legendary cemeteries.